Inequality will sow the seeds of unrest

3:44 PM,
Jan. 24, 2014

Written by

John Kuhlman, Weaverville

The history of this country is replete with contests between the wealthy and the rest. Bacon's Rebellion (1676), the Regulator movement in North Carolina (1766), the Green Mountain Boys (1777), The Whiskey Rebellion (1791), Veterans Bonus March (1932) are only a few of the incidents in which the have-nots rebelled against the haves. In 1968 10,500 police, more than 6,700 National Guard, and 5,000 U.S. Army troops were in Chicago to restore calm following the assassination of Martin Luther King. (Wikipedia) The wealthy live in one world; the rest of us live in ...